having my master nameserver resolve another zone...

[Kevin Darcy]

"Christopher L. Barnard" wrote:

> Sorry.  The master forward dns table of the cbot.com zone.
>
> The cbott.com zone and the cbot.com zone both work just fine, all
> entries are defined, etc.  What I am trying to do is to get the cbot.com
> zone to recognize the cbott.com zone as a subzone of cbot.com.

Well, only subdomains can be subzones. cbott.com is not a subdomain of cbot.com,
so how can it be a subzone?

Perhaps you should clarify what you're trying to accomplish.


- Kevin

> > It's not clear to me what you mean by "master forward dns table". You
> > should be putting these records in the cbott.com zone. Unless you intend
> > to define a cbott.com zone explicitly on *all* relevant nameservers, you
> > should also be adding these same records as glue to the parent zone
> > ("com" or root).
> >
> >
> >                                 - Kevin
> >
> >
> > Christopher L. Barnard wrote:
> >
> > >I must be missing something here, but I do not see what.
> > >
> > >I am trying to add the new zone "corp.cbot.com" under the existing cbot.com.
> > >Because of some other requirements, this server is actually "cbott.com"
> > >(note the extra t).  cbott.com has been registered with Internic, so that
> > >should not be an issue.  I suppose it does not matter actually, since it
> > >is internal-only...
> > >
> > >What I am trying to do is have a machine "foobar.cbott.com" resolve as
> > >"foobar.corp.cbot.com", thus masking the fact that it is really in the
> > >cbott.com zone.  I am trying to fight one forest fire at a time, so I
> > >want to resolve just "foobar.cbott.com" first.  Then I'll tackle having it
> > >resolve as foobar.corp.cbot.com.  I have put in the master forward dns
> > >table the glue records
> > >
> > >cbott.com.      IN      NS      cbottad1.cbott.com.
> > >cbott.com.      IN      NS      cbottad2.cbott.com.
> > >
> > >and the corresponding A records for their IP.
> > >
> > >cbottad1.cbott.com.             IN A    164.74.77.101
> > >cbottad2.cbott.com.             IN A    164.74.77.102
> > >